You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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